Absurd Quotes

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end. (Quote by - Alice Caldwell Rice)

First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. (Quote by - James,William)

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd. (Quote by - Jennifer Beals)

I think it's absurd to make any such suggestion that our men and women in uniform deliberately targeted innocent civilians. That's just absurd. (Quote by - Scott McClellan)

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. (Quote by - Catherine Crowe)

It was absurd in the spring, and it's still absurd. (Quote by - Richard Hatch)

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Nihil tam absurde dici potest quo non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum. There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. (Quote by - MarcusTullius Cicero)

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. (Quote by - Richard Courant)

For the eye to have been formed by natural selection, seems absurd in the highest degree. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)

Were seeing in the fiction something that seems absurd, but it's not as absurd as the form in which it's actually being applied on a daily and weekly basis. (Quote by - William Sanchez)

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. (Quote by - Archibald MacLeish)

There is always something rather absurd about the past. (Quote by - Beerbohm)

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason. (Quote by - Henry Mencken)

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. (Quote by - Elizabeth Goudge)

The logic of the heart is absurd. (Quote by - Julie de Lespinasse)

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind. (Quote by - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)